Stream Maintenance Program

In the first four years of this program, the water district has removed so much sediment, invasive vegetation, trash and debris and repaired so many eroded creek banks, that when record rainfall came a few years ago, our waterways were able to carry floodwaters safely. This same work has also created more natural conditions for fish, plants and wildlife.

The major types of routine stream maintenance activities are:

Levee safety

Sediment removal

Vegetation management

Bank protection

More minor maintenance activities include:

Trash removal

Fence and access repair

Maintenance of revegetation sites

Preserving trees for healthy watersheds

Managing watershed vegetation

If you have observed a problem in any creek in our service area, you can report to our "Access Valley Water" online customer request and information system. This is the best way to alert our field crews of downed branches, eroding banks, trash, graffiti or overgrown vegetation.